What’s funny is that dogs are in essence doing the same thing when they shed- they are ditching hair which, material wise, is similiar to what fingernail, scales, and exoskelotons are made of. The fluffyness of hair reminds us of hair texture can really make a difference to have a material feels.

I have been in favor of doing something with dog hair for a long time but that insane idea aside- us with shelled and scaly pals run into this shedding with a sort of museum curiousity.

Afterall- I have seen snake skins in natural history museums. But I also know people who have had a snake for 10 years- so other than making a super cool slightly bad smelling dungeon of all of these skins- what are we to do. I mean we all also find our pets cute and so these beautiul things that fall off them and are intact become little memories.

I started to think about this in making my documentary SPIDERS WILL EAT YOUR FACE because the molting process for tarantulas does leave a perfect copy of the spiders old body most of the time. I did indeed run across some people saving as many of these molts as possible- a cool site truly.

I will even admit- with my red eared slider terrapins I save the bits of shell layer that came off when they had big growth spurts.